X and fonts

[Ian Stephen]

Everyone should have two monitors, at least until 30" monitors become
affordable.  My seconds were both used, $10 cdn for card and $50 for
monitor.  Wouldn't go back to one for love or money.

On Sat, 2003-04-26 at 19:02, Net Llama! wrote:
> My experience with dual heads (AKA Xinerama) is limited, so take my 
> comments with a grain or two of sale.

> Which config files?

I thought it was XF86Config-4, but as you point out I was wrong.  I get
a little frazzled with these fixing marathons.  The thing I thought had
been fixed by aligning a memory figure for one video card is still there
in XFree86.0.log

"(II) I810(0): xf86AllocateGARTMemory: allocation of 1024 pages failed
         (Cannot allocate memory)
 (II) I810(0): No physical memory available for 4194304 bytes of DCACHE
 (II) I810(0): Adding 768 scanlines for pixmap caching"

This is onboard AGP video.  Does this just mean the video doesn't have
it's own ram?
 
> So you're saying that you didn't have a /var/lib/xkb after the glibc 
> upgrade?

Well, I didn't have /var/lib/xkb this morning when X wouldn't start.  If
it hadn't been for rpm -ql XFree86 I never would have known it was
missing.  Looking now I find the only thing there is the README. hmm.
 
> Provided the default fixed font that you were missing.  How long had it 
> been since you rebooted and/or restarted X before last night's occurances?
 
I boot Linux, runlevel 5, every evening after work.  Wife and kids use
Win98 on the same machine during the day 'cause it's what they're used
to.  Everything seemed fine after the up2date, though now that I think
of it when I shutdown last night it did say it failed to stop xfs. 
Didn't even know what that was then.  Discovered trouble when I fired it
up this morning.

> up2date is usually quite safe, in my experience.

hmmm.  So the up2date was probably not related.  I'll try the same
upgrades again and see what happens.  At least if the same troubles
result I'll know what to fix.  Wonderful how with Linux when something
does go wrong even an poor blue-collar fellow can dig in and have a hope
of fixing it!

Cheers,
IanS